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Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup

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Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup

Full of fresh veggies from your garden or farmer’s market this recipe for Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup is full of great Italian flavor!

Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup

Slow Cooker Chicken Minestrone Soup

This delicious chicken minestrone soup  recipe came about as a way for me to use up a few items from my garden as well as some of the items I have canned and put up in my pantry.

Last summer I canned over 20 pounds of kidney beans (yes, that is a LOT of beans!) with my pressure canner so I have been trying to find or create recipes that use up those kidney beans. Thankfully kidney beans are my kids favorite kind of beans!

From the garden zucchini and cabbage have done great for me and so this recipe includes both.

As with many of our slow cooker recipes this recipe is easily adaptable to use what you have in your fridge and pantry. You can easily replace the chicken with turkey, or use cooked leftover chicken/turkey instead of raw). You can use a different kind of bean (pinto beans, cannellini beans etc.), add a diced potato or two, use yellow summer squash instead of zucchini, throw in some canned or frozen corn, chopped celery…the list goes on and on.

Soup is so forgiving in that way!

I think one of my favorite things to add to recipes is cabbage. My family are not huge cabbage eaters, even though I LOVE it. But soups and stews are so easy to add it to because it cooks down to a cooked thin onion texture so they don’t even realize they are eating cabbage.

I have 4 more cabbages growing in my garden so I will have to come up with more recipes to sneak them into!

Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup

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High Fiber | Low Fat | Low Sugar

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Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup

Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup

Crock-Pot Chicken Minestrone Soup Recipe

Heidi Kennedy
This chicken minestrone soup is full of great Italian flavors. Beans, tomatoes, veggies and herbs and spices simmered away with tender chicken. The pasta is cooked on the stove top and added right before serving!
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 3 hrs
Total Time 3 hrs 20 mins
Course Soups, Stews and Chili
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8 Servings
Calories 402 kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts (or chicken thighs if you prefer dark meat)
  • 1 cup Cabbage (shredded)
  • 1 large Yellow Onion (finely chopped)
  • 1 large Zucchini (sliced)
  • 2 cloves Garlic (minced)
  • 1 ½ cups Carrots (chopped)
  • 4 cups Chicken Broth (store bought or homemade)
  • 30 ounces Canned Kidney Beans (drained and rinsed)
  • 28 ounces Canned Crushed Tomatoes
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • ½ teaspoon Pepper
  • 1 teaspoon Dried Basil
  • ½ teaspoon Dried Oregano
  • 16 ounces Elbow Macaroni Pasta (cooked on stove top)
  • ¼ cup Parmesan Cheese (grated)

Instructions

  • Line your slow cooker with a crock-pot liner if desired.
  • Add all the cut up raw vegetables to the bottom of a 6 quart or larger slow cooker.
  • Place the chicken on top of the vegetables.
  • Add the canned tomatoes and kidney beans.
  • Add your spices and then add the chicken broth, mix gently to combine.
  • Cover and cook on LOW for about 7 – 8 hours or on HIGH for 3 – 4 hours until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are tender.
  • Remove the cooked chicken from the slow cooker and place on a plate. Shred the chicken meat with two forks and add the shredded chicken back into the soup in the slow cooker.
  • Durring the last 1/2 hour of cooking cook the pasta on the stove-top according the directions on the package until just al dente.
  • Strain cooked pasta and add to soup right before serving.
  • Top each bowl of soup with shredded Parmesan cheese and serve.

Notes

Feel free to adapt this recipe to use up whatever veggies and items in your pantry. Summer squash, corn, celery all taste great. Pinto beans, cannellini beans, navy beans all can be used instead of kidney beans. Different kinds of short pasta can be used. You can even use turkey instead of chicken!

Nutrition

Calories: 402kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 38g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 76mg | Sodium: 1102mg | Potassium: 1049mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 8400IU | Vitamin C: 40.4mg | Calcium: 220mg | Iron: 4.3mg
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Comments

  1. Marie Gniazdowski says

    October 7, 2017 at 10:29 AM

    The Chicken Minestrone Soup was FANTASTIC, delicious!!

    Reply
    • Lady Heidi says

      October 8, 2017 at 5:02 PM

      So glad you enjoyed it Marie!

      Reply
  2. Bonnie @ Tastykitchenn says

    October 17, 2017 at 1:37 AM

    I have never tried Chicken Minestrone Soup. Definitely gonna give the recipe a try this week. Bet it will be tasty. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Lady Heidi says

      October 17, 2017 at 12:32 PM

      Hope you like it Bonnie!

      Reply

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